Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together [1] from Ur [2] of the Chaldeans inorderto enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled [3] there.

"But Sihon [1] king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through [2] his land; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, inorderto deliver him into your hand, as he is today.

"It is not [1] for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, inorderto confirm the [2] oath [3] which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

"When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it inorderto capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For [1] is the tree of the field a man, that it should be [2] besieged by you?

Footnotes:[1] : Read as interrogative with ancient versions; [2] : Lit come before you in the siege;

Then the [1] angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak [2] that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite [3] as his son Gideon [4] was beating out wheat in the wine press inorderto save it from the Midianites.

Then her husband arose and went after her to speak [1] tenderly [2] to her inorderto bring her back, taking [3] with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. So she brought him into her father's house, and when the girl's father saw him, he was glad to meet him.

Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, inorderto[1] raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance."

"Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife inorderto raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that [1] the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the court [2] of his birth place; you are witnesses today."